Is it possible to programmatically check overture bid amounts?

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    Does anyone know? I would be willing to pay for some help with this part of a private script.

    Ideally I would be able to enter 10 keywords and have the program give me an average of the top 5 bid amounts or something like that for each one.

    hmm if a MOD reads this could you please correct the typo in the title (possibly > possible)--thanks
     
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    BRUm Well-Known Member

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    I would be willing to help, but it seems the overture tool has a graphical validation entry :/
     
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    Yes that's the tricky part... im not sure how to get around that, or if it's even possible
     
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    You can try to use phpOCR or similar library for captcha recognition :cool:
     
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    looking at this, if i'm going to have to do image recognition type stuff, it's probably beyond my limited php abilities. would anyone like to do this for me (i will pay you, of course)? if not, does anyone have a recommended place to post this kind of project (i usually do scriptlance but im not sure its the best).

    thanks for the help guys.
     
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    See what I've found:
    Overture bidding tool CAPTCHA recognizer demo.
    You can contact them for price request if you are interested. Maybe they have a ready to use solution since they are doing overture captcha recognitions. Post a results, please, if you get some information.
     
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    wmtips, Nice link...
     
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    Wow - good steal.... I mean Score ;)

    I'm pretty sure - almost positive, that this is against their TOS but if it's possible, i shall scrape their page and build a DB of popular terms as well ;)

    Thanks for the link!
     
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    remember phpOCR is not able to work all the time.

    check out this Google Techtalk:

    it explains 2 ways to get around the issue:

    heres the intro in part:http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8246463980976635143&q=google+techtalk

    ABSTRACT Tasks like image recognition are trivial for humans, but continue to challenge even the most sophisticated computer programs. This talk introduces a paradigm for utilizing human processing power to solve problems that computers cannot yet solve. Traditional approaches to solving such problems focus on improving software
     
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